Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4496080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew W Klingle, Matthew Klingle (0000-0002-3057-684X, Bowdoin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 94-110 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1046/j.1468-2303.2003.00260.x |
| OpenAlex | W2081670735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 10 |
Consumption has emerged as an important historical subject, with most scholars explaining it as a vehicle for therapeutic regeneration, community formation, or economic policy. This work all but ignores how consumption begins with changes to the material world, to physical nature. While environmental historians have something important, even unique, to say about consumption, the split between materialist and cultural analyses within the field has dulled its ability to study consumption as a process and phenomenon that unfolds over space and time. By borrowing techniques from geography and ecology, environmental historians can analyze how space is socially produced through time, an insight that can help to connect material and cultural change in a sustained manner. Spatial histories can also unmask the relationships between production and consumption, and nature and culture, and thereby transcend and subvert seemingly fixed boundaries, from the local to the global. They can also further propel environmental historians into new realms of inquiry, such as international trade and the human body. Historicizing the spaces of consumption may also help to foster a more radical and democratic environmentalism, especially in developed nations, by compelling environmentalists to reassess the distancing effects of consumption upon their politics and attitudes toward those who produce commodities and consumer goods
Aesthetics · Consumption (sociology) · Distancing · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Materiality (auditing) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy
The Nature of Place
At the Edge of the Storm
The Study of Borderlands Consumption
El Dompe , Los Yonkes , and Las Segundas
Confined to the Margins
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Using and Sharing
Disrupting Boundaries
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window
Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Selling the Border
Domesticating the Border
On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands
The Virtue of Thoreau
Total War and the Total Environment
Common Ground
Wilderness Wives and Dishwashing Husbands
Traditional Wisdom in Land Use and Resource Management Among the Lugbara of Uganda
Thoreau's Body
Directing the Flow
Accounting for Taste
The social construction of scale
Is There An Urban History Of Consumption
The Changing Experience of Nature
The Essence of Commodification
The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
People, Plants, and Pathogens
Coffee Anyone? Recent Research on Latin American Coffee Societies
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |